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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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